New Monster Toy Blog Reviews

[DinoToyForum]

I've just posted a review to officially launch the Monster Toy Blog!

https://monstertoyblog.com/loch-ness-monster-aaa/

There are lots more reviews in the pipeline so this will be a busy week for the new website. I'm looking forward to hopefully seeing it take off like the Animal Toy Blog did!

[BlueKrono]

Will there be a Monster Toy Forum to accompany it?

[DinoToyForum]

Will there be a Monster Toy Forum to accompany it?

If there's a demand for it, but not yet, for those who aren't aware I set up a monster section on the Animal Toy Forum for now: https://animaltoyforum.com/index.php?board=71.0. We'll see how it goes. I don't want to put in a lot of time and effort to create a dead forum.

[Gwangi]

X-Plus Cyclops, from The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

https://monstertoyblog.com/cyclops-the-7th-voyage-of-sinbad-ray-harryhausen-film-library-by-x-plus/

[Gwangi]

Spirit Halloween Chupacabra

https://monstertoyblog.com/chupacabra-spirit-halloween/

[Gwangi]

Super7 Godzilla Kit inspired figure

https://monstertoyblog.com/godzilla-model-kit-on-card-reaction-figures-by-super7/

[Crackington]

Nice review Gwangi, and interesting to see a model of a model!

I had the glow in the dark Aurora model when I was a kid. There were two heads, hands, sail (?) etc so you had a choice which way to build it. I chose glow in the dark, but it used to scare me if I woke up in the night!

There was an urban myth that the glow paint really was radioactive and affected Aurora workers' health but that's probably bollocks - "never did me any harm" anyway!

[Gwangi]

Nice review Gwangi, and interesting to see a model of a model!

I had the glow in the dark Aurora model when I was a kid. There were two heads, hands, sail (?) etc so you had a choice which way to build it. I chose glow in the dark, but it used to scare me if I woke up in the night!

There was an urban myth that the glow paint really was radioactive and affected Aurora workers' health but that's probably bollocks - "never did me any harm" anyway!

Thanks! It would have been great if they made this figure glow-in-the-dark too. That's funny that it scared you as a kid. Did you end up throwing a blanket over it or something?

I can see how one might think the glow-in-the-dark paint was radioactive, especially back then! Who knows what's in that stuff though. Turns out a lot of the toy dinosaurs I had in the 80's and 90's had lead paint on them. Never did me any harm! Still wouldn't give them to my own kids though.

[Crackington]

Completely agree, those old toys shouldn't be given to young children to play with - grown ups only!

I was ok with the glow in the dark Godzilla mostly, but a couple of times woke up quickly and got freaked out by it until I realised what it was - it really did glow deep into the night! I think my Mam and Dad moved it out of the line of vision in the end.

[Gwangi]

Completely agree, those old toys shouldn't be given to young children to play with - grown ups only!

I was ok with the glow in the dark Godzilla mostly, but a couple of times woke up quickly and got freaked out by it until I realised what it was - it really did glow deep into the night! I think my Mam and Dad moved it out of the line of vision in the end.

Maybe it was radioactive then. Most of the modern glow-in-the-dark toys fade away pretty quickly and need intense light exposure to glow in the first place.

Looks like Super7 does make glow-in-the-dark Godzilla figures. Not sure why this one wasn't. All well.

[Gwangi]

Bandai Mothra Larva

https://monstertoyblog.com/mothra-larva-movie-monster-series-by-bandai/

[Gwangi]

Trendmasters Biollante

https://monstertoyblog.com/biollante-trendmasters/

[Gwangi]

Trendmasters Mothra

https://monstertoyblog.com/mothra-6-trendmasters/

[Gwangi]

Trendmasters Battra

https://monstertoyblog.com/battra-4-6-trendmasters/

[Gwangi]

Victory Dance Godzilla by ReAction

https://monstertoyblog.com/godzilla-65-victory-celebration-super7-toho-reaction-figures/

[Gwangi]

Toy Biz 1998 Godzilla

https://monstertoyblog.com/godzilla-1998-electronic-rumble-roar-n-power-blast-by-toy-biz-inc/

[Gwangi]

Hedorah by Bandai

https://monstertoyblog.com/hedorah-shokugan-godzilla-collection-by-bandai/